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2Es una escena trepidante, de vibrante pulso, vistosidad y detalles. Acorde con el libreto y el preciosismo musical que vuelca Mozart en una ópera (dramma giocoso) que combina humor y lirismo, bufonería y honduras. Todo, todas las aristas de la obra maestra fueron recreadas por un Barenboim en noche de gracia, animado también por un engrasado sexteto vocal sin fisuras. Ni siquiera la mezzosoprano Marina Viotti (hija del desparecido director Marcello Viotti y hermana del también director Lorenzo Viotti), de la que se anunció que “se encuentra indispuesta, pero cantará”, dio muestras de ello.
Orendt impressed once more, if anything still more so than as the Count. His dark, virile baritone was well complemented by Bogdan Volkov’s sweet-voiced tenor, ardent and imploring as required, as Ferrando. The latter’s duet with Evelin Novak’s Fiordiligi was a particular vocal (and orchestral) highlight for me. Fiordiligi’s journey, traced in finest Egyptian vocal cotton, was throughout as involving as Huguet’s banalities permitted. I was less sure about Marina Viotti’s contrasting Dorabella, though concluded that to be more a matter of taste than anything else, her degree of forthrightness in, say, ‘E amore un ladroncello’, a valid interpretative choice (if not necessarily mine). Lucio Gallo made for an effortlessly stylish, verbally acute Don Alfonso. Barbara Frittoli shared the same virtues and offered a welcome change as voice of experience rather than irritating soubrette. She felt no need to resort to silly voices for Despina’s other ‘characters’, employing subtler transformations of tone and colour.
